Amazon Counterfeit Products

Users complain about the rampant issue of counterfeit and fake goods on Amazon, particularly from third-party sellers, commingled inventory, and specific categories like electronics, toiletries, and board games, leading to reduced trust in the platform.

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ams6110 Jun 12, 2017 View on HN

Given Amazon's problems with counterfeit items, I'm not sure I'd buy something like that from them.

pavel_lishin Mar 3, 2018 View on HN

What about amazon's counterfeiting problem?

uslic001 Oct 20, 2013 View on HN

This is my biggest gripe with Amazon. You never know if you are going to get a cheap Chinese knockoff or the real thing from the 3rd party sellers on the site. At least one third of my purchases from the site from 3rd party sellers now end up being fakes. Sometimes you know it is going to be a fake just by the low price and just live with it if it is not a critical item. All the other times I have to send it back. Amazon does nothing to the third party sellers that are selling fakes. They l

DanTheManPR Oct 21, 2019 View on HN

It depends on what types of things you're typically buying, there are systematic problems in a few classes of products. For example: board games and 3D printer accessories on Amazon are rampantly counterfeited, to the point that it's often difficult to get the real thing. You may actually have received a high quality counterfeit before and not realized it; for example, I used my Xbox360 hard drive for years before realizing that it had totally bogus identifier markings.

xenihn May 22, 2017 View on HN

Amazon has a huge problem with counterfeits. I've noticed that it's especially bad for two things: almost anything that you'd typically find at a place like CVS or Walgreen (e.g. toiletries), and cheap electronic peripherals like USB drives, SD cards, and cables. I avoid buying things from these categories on Amazon whenever possible.

jfrunyon Sep 19, 2021 View on HN

The Amazon brands are some of the worst offenders.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumer-groups-iss...<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20837359/amazon-basics-fake-sellers-imposters-third-party-marketplace" rel="n

jollyllama Dec 22, 2022 View on HN

You get screwed either way. Buy something on amazon and it's quite likely to be just as bad, counterfeit, etc. - how many times have people complained about that?

johnwheeler Jan 9, 2023 View on HN

Amazon has become untrustworthy. Can’t trust the reviews and the products might be counterfeit. They shouldn’t have let all the cheap Chinese junk on there. Now, it’s best to just go to a real retailer website.

W-Stool Nov 13, 2019 View on HN

What are the chances that the deal you found on Amazon involved counterfeit goods? That’s been a big problem with audio and electronics on Amazon recently.

miguelmota May 10, 2019 View on HN

Amazon is polluted with knock-offs. It's often a hit or miss when ordering cheap electronics